St Kitts Hosts a June Citizenship-Investment Summit as the OECS Moves Toward One Rulebook

St Kitts and Nevis hosts the third Investment Gateway Summit on June 17–20, drawing programme decision-makers, investors and advisers as the five Eastern Caribbean citizenship-by-investment nations — Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, and St Lucia — move to adopt a single regional legal framework. The harmonisation, agreed in 2025, is set to tighten eligibility and may introduce a minimum-stay requirement of around 30 days within the first five years.

For the diaspora and would-be second-passport holders, the window of the older, lighter-touch rules is closing. Anyone weighing a Caribbean passport — Grenada for its US E-2 treaty access, St Kitts for processing speed, Antigua’s family-fund route — should confirm current contribution thresholds and the incoming stay and due-diligence obligations before committing, since terms are shifting region-wide rather than country by country.

Source: Coates Global; CS Global Partners; Immigrant Invest.